Daniel Martin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does it mean to live an authentic life when success has cost you your soul? Daniel Martin is a sweeping, introspective novel that follows its eponymous protagonist — a successful Hollywood screenwriter who, beneath the glittering veneer of fame and creative compromise, is haunted by the choices that have shaped and diminished him. When a dying friend summons him back to England and into the orbit of a woman from his past, Daniel is forced to confront decades of self-deception, lost love, and the fractured relationship between his public persona and private identity. Set across England, America, and the sun-scorched landscapes of the Middle East, the novel unfolds as a rich, meditative journey through memory and moral reckoning. John Fowles, one of the most intellectually ambitious British novelists of the twentieth century, constructs Daniel Martin as both a deeply personal confession and a bold formal experiment — weaving together multiple timelines, shifting perspectives, and cinematic imagery to mirror his protagonist's fractured consciousness. The novel stands alongside The French Lieutenant's Woman as a landmark of postmodern British fiction, distinguished by Fowles' characteristically erudite prose, his unflinching examination of Englishness, and his preoccupation with freedom, authenticity, and the artist's responsibility to truth. For readers willing to surrender to its expansive, unhurried intelligence, Daniel Martin rewards with one of literature's most searching portraits of a man who must choose, at last, to become whole.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to live an authentic life when success has cost you your soul? Daniel Martin is a sweeping, introspective novel that follows its eponymous protagonist — a successful Hollywood screenwriter who, beneath the glittering veneer of fame and creative compromise, is haunted by the choices that have shaped and diminished him. When a dying friend summons him back to England and into the orbit of a woman from his past, Daniel is forced to confront decades of self-deception, lost love, and the fractured relationship between his public persona and private identity. Set across England, America, and the sun-scorched landscapes of the Middle East, the novel unfolds as a rich, meditative journey through memory and moral reckoning. John Fowles, one of the most intellectually ambitious British novelists of the twentieth century, constructs Daniel Martin as both a deeply personal confession and a bold formal experiment — weaving together multiple timelines, shifting perspectives, and cinematic imagery to mirror his protagonist's fractured consciousness. The novel stands alongside The French Lieutenant's Woman as a landmark of postmodern British fiction, distinguished by Fowles' characteristically erudite prose, his unflinching examination of Englishness, and his preoccupation with freedom, authenticity, and the artist's responsibility to truth. For readers willing to surrender to its expansive, unhurried intelligence, Daniel Martin rewards with one of literature's most searching portraits of a man who must choose, at last, to become whole.